Medicaid Monster Munches State Money
Cost overruns in the health care program mean less money is available for other government priorities.
Cost overruns in the health care program mean less money is available for other government priorities.
RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory's Medicaid reform plan marks a "critical step forward" to help create a pro-patient, pro-taxpayer health care safety net. That's the conclusion of a new Policy Report from the John Locke Foundation and the Florida-based Foundation for Government Accountability. The report offers nine ideas to help…
If, knowing recent trends, you try to claim that North Carolina has a low rate of Medicaid spending growth, you are misinforming the public.
RALEIGH — North Carolina could look northwest to Indiana and south to Florida for evidence of how a consumer-driven model would improve the state Medicaid program. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report highlights the Indiana and Florida approaches to Medicaid reform.
If school choice programs constitute educational privatization, then Medicaid constitutes health care privatization.
The national response to new Medicaid dollars is not as unique as you might have heard.
To the extent Gov. McCrory and state lawmakers can reform the state tax code, North Carolina’s economy will likely show immediate, significant improvement.
One reason for North Carolina’s lackluster economy is that we tax more and spend more on public assistance than do most of our neighbors.
If North Carolina’s Medicaid costs were at the regional average, we’d be spending about $640 million less in state money next year than is currently projected.
The governor and General Assembly have been taking steps to fix what ails North Carolina.